V M "-, 75-', j J. 1 V? PUBLIC .. i) &-' EVENING -LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY,, JTOtE 5,' 1919 su ; i Organ plays at 9, il, 11 :55 and 4:50 Chime! at Moon V ' -'fl WANAMAKER'S Store Opens at 9 WANAMAKER'S Store Closes at 5 WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Fair It Is Probably Cooler in the Store Than in Your Home) I i 1 i : , ' -4- &7 J m Edison, the Patient Man, , Played With the Stars courting electricity until it came and sat down at his side. After he had lit up the world, he left off studying the Alphabet of the Electric Schools and volunteered to serve his country in the shipbuilding workshop. There he was in his twofold silence digging for -secrets to conquer the humanity. If every man and woman, big and little, were to follow Edison's example, putting into the War Charities, Salvation Army included, all there is of himself and herself, whatever the cost, the stoppage of the War might come any hour. A man is not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. ISigned June 5, 1010. 200 Women's Jersey Dresses Reduced to $18.75 Each Early season prices were in some cases more than double. The colors include both dark and light, the styles are many usually of the straight-line type ; and the dresses altogether are ready to do yeoman service for their new owners, both on cool Summer days and early in the Fall. 100 women' 8 wool suits are reduced to $15 each a very considerable saving on each. They are mostly light-colored worsteds and checks and are well worth looking over. ' (First Floor, Central) Every Woman Wants a New Sweater or Sports Coat to 'Wear at seashore or mountains or around her summer home, wher ever it be. Wool slip-ons, with or without sleeves, in plain or fancy colors, $5 to $30. Wool sweaters and sports coats in tuxedo or coat style, with Eton or Bailor collar and sash; plain or fancy colors; $2.75 to $25. Artificial silk slip-ond and sports coats in tuxedo and coat models, $4.50 to $75. Thread silk sports coats and slip-ons, with or without sleeves, plain or fancy colors, $18.50 to $80. New filet slip-ons and sports coats in butterfly or fancy designs, $11 to $45. (First Floor, Market) "This Does Save So Much Bother and Time to Get the Girls' Dresses!" That is what mothers tell us every day. They come into that little Gray Salon with their small and large daughters and select enough tub frocks for the whole season. The dresses are not expensive, and they are prettier and more unusual than many dressmakers could make, for they are designed and made by people who devote all their time and effort to the study and making of girls' clothes. In consequence, the dresses are precisely the kind girls sjiould wear in quite good taste, dainty, simple and pretty. There are such lovely sum- , mer cottons, too white dim ities with rose or China blue dots, fine French voiles in white and perfectly exquisite colors, crisp dotted Swisses, cool tissue ginghams in checked and striped effects, sturdy ginghams and fine lawns and batistes and or gandies that are by no means least, though we mention them last. Cool, low round or square necks, short sleeves, perky little sashes to tie in back, col ored hand embroidery in just the right places all these add to the charms of the dresses. There are 6 to 14 and 15 and 17 year s,izes and there are literally hundreds of fresh new frocks for their choosing. ' $S to $25 and this takes in frocks for all needs from morn ing wear tq parties. (Second Floor, Chestnut) Look in the Waist Sale for These Embroidered crepe de chine waists in white and flesh color, also solid-colored Georgette crepes in light and dark colors with beading and embroidery, printed Georgettes and tailored crepes de chine. All $3.85 to $5. White cross-bar and striped voiles, besides part-linen waists in plain colors, price $1.65. (East and Wet Aisles) Fine Novelty Voiles for Dresses for Many Occasions In fact they are more used for utility frocks than any other kind of cotton goods, because women can wear them In town shopping in the morning and feci that they are quite suitably dressed for calling .or tea at the country club, in the afternoon, y$ These voiles have mostly dark grounds, black or various shades ' efc.blue or It may bo taupe or gray. The designs are inclined to be IsUrfcTand In all-over effects. iv Ti" i i l HmT lil fai il seas for the benefit of jkm4- vl .i a ftf 4 . rV ... .-A& Tliis Being the Month for Commencements many people are busy puzzling over the "what shall I give" problem. If the graduate is a girl, here are some suggestions as to gifts that you may be sure will be gratefully received. A string of pearls, imitation, of course, but of soft, beautiful luster and sheen, $1.50 to $25. Sterling silver barpins, set with rhinestones, in lacy de signs, $1 to $10. Slipper buckles, all the fash ionable shapes and kinds, $1 to $33. Colored bead necklaces aVc very much the vogue all col ors and many styles, are $1 to $6. Gold - plated jewelry lin gene clasps, baipins, plain and jeweled, collar pins, and hat pins, 50c to $1.50. (Jewelrj Mori-. ( heMnnt nnd Thirteenth) CUSTOM-MADE White Shoes for Fastidious Women No one who has not seen a shoo made pf Chinese white buck skin knows how fine a white buck skin shoe can be. In the custom shoe corner of the London Shop a special im portation of Chinese white buck skin has just been received. It is as soft and velvety and pliable as a glove and will make women in comparable shoes for tennis, yachting or beach wear. (The Onllerj. Chestnut) THE First Since the War Little Girls' English Smocked Dresses English smocking Is famous, and so weie the little fine white dimity di esses which the British makers used to send us. For a long time we couldn't get them, but the other day a great case of them landed and heio they arc, just in time for this weather. Of snowy English dimity, they are all hand made, and smocked in several new and different styles. The smocking, of coui.se, is in color (the blues are lovely!) and the dresses aic charming lor little girls. $9.50 to $152 to 6 year sizes. (Third Floor, Chestnut) N EW Letitia Cor sets Arrive A model of cool flesh-colored batiste, made topless and with clastic all round the top; price $5. Also a topless stylo with two elastic bands in waist, made of the soft pink tricot which is so com fortable for Summer. The bon ing is1 excellent and there are two hooks below the front steel. Price $D. (Third Floor, Chestnut) MORE Sleeveless Nightgowns Made of very sheer nainsook, fine and silky to the touch, edged with excellent Valenciennes and run through with excellent satin ribbons. Several styles at $3.25 to $4. (Third Floor, Central) B EST Bathing Suit Satin That We Know Of It has just arrived a fine soft,, brilliant satin and good black, at the same price it has always" sold for, $3 a yard. The width is 3C inches. Theio are more bathing cos tumes being made of satin than there ever were and this particu lar satin has been found most satisfactoiy. It certainly makes up most beautifully. (First Floor, Chestnut) WHITE Goods Remnants for a Third Less And this means considerable savings for women who have small children or who make their own lingerie. Both plain and fancy weaves and lengths for skirts, blouses', children's clothes and so on. (Eat Aisle) Women's White Low Shoes at Moderate Prices White canvas oxfords with full, round toes and low leather heels, or with narrower toes and Cuban leather heels, $4.50 a pair. White canvas plain pumps with Louis or military heels, both styles with white welting, $5.50 a pair. Any one of these four styles is good and all are unusual for the price. (Flrtt Floor, Market) To Ma? Slid a Sets ii Tlis Jane China Acliewiieiit Frencn hina dinner sets wiU not be even comparatively plentiful before This is due partly to the limited output, but in a greater measure to the extraordinary demand for these sets in all countries at the present time To have such a collection of French sets as we show in this June China Sale is remarkable, in view of the circumstances. To have them at such prices is more remarkable still, considering prevailing wholesale prices. We have them at $32.50, $40, $50, $60, $85 and up to $175. As a collection, they are not surpassed in this city, and we don't believe they are equaled. j In body, shape, decoration and composition they are standard sets, sets of undoubted quality at savings of undoubted reality. English, American and Japanese sets are abundantly shown in the Sale, also at considerable reductions from regular prices. The assortment of fine cut glass at savings of one-third is one of the best we have ever had and that is saying a great deal. Low-priced light cuttings are offered in large selection. (Fourth Floor, Chestnut) M)wwipTmjw);ii iuiiviym A Good Summer Sale of Toilet Articles v There are always quantities of little things that everybody needs for comfort in warm weather. This Sale offers the opportunity to buy them most economi cally. The Average Saving Is a Third We have made the list as complete as possible and the prices as low, and we have had in mind the needs of people going away, as well as those staying at home. Toilet Soaps, 8c a Cake 'Violet, rose, heliotrope and lilac, 8c a cake, 90c a dozen. Vegetable oil soap, 8c a cake, 90c a clozen.- Olive oil soap, 8c a cake, 90c a dozen. Toilet Articles Hair brushes, 35c to $2.25. Nail brushes, 25c. Tooth brushes, 20c. Shaving brushes, 25c, 35c and 50c. Rubber sponge, 10c. Wanamaker Ozo deodorant cream, 20c. Wanamaker Oter depilatory powder, 35c. Peroxide, 18c and 35c, pint and quart sizes. Wanamaker Superior shav ing cream, 18c. Boric acid, 30c lb. Chalk and orris, 20c lb. Bicarbonato of soda, 12c lb, Sterato of zinc, 15c. Traveling mirror, with metal frame, 50c. Bath sprays, 85c. Witch hazel, 35c and 65c. Violet ammonia, 20c and 35c. Bay riVm, 90c and $1.75, pint and quart sizes. Lilac vegetal, 75c. Wistaria vegetal, 75c. Hair tonic, 50c. Eau de cologne, 75c. Cold cream, 15c. Bath crystals, violet and verbena, 50c and 85c. (V(lt Aisle and Main ORGANDIE Col lars and Sets at 25c and 50c All are of fine, pleated organ die, in Vandyke points, and there are collars alone, and others with cuffs to match. All , the gay, pretty Summer colors are here rose pink, Cop enhagen blue, red, lavender ot tan, and there are others of white, and Some of white' and a color combined. Manymre for round-neck Sum mer dresses or blouses, ra ,25c and f60c. y Js, H Collection of Imitation Ivory Toilet Articles Hair brushes', $1.35 to $2.25. Mirrors, $1.25 to $2.25. Combs, 15c and 25c. Puff boxes, 50c to $1. Hair receivers, 50c and $1. Shaving brush holders, 30c. Tooth brush holders, 35c. Khaki Toilet Cases Half Price and Less Unfitted cases, 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.25. Fitted cases, $1.75 to $4. Sewing kits, 15c, 25c and 35c. Money and 75c. belts, 25c, 35e, 50c Honfleur Toilet Preparations Toilet water, violet and l'Empire, 45c and 85c. Extracts, 40c and COd. Talcum powder, 10c. Face powder, 25c. The extracts, talcum powder and face powder aic in l'Em pire, violet and rose scents. Skin cream, 35c. Cleansing cream, 35c. Youth and Beauty cream, 35c. i Hair tonic, $1. Bay rum, 50c. Honey and almond cream, 25c. Floor, Chestnut) B.OYS' Washable Suits ( in linens, leps, galateas, cham brays and kindergarten cloths; in junior Norfolk, "Oliver Twist," short Russian and Middy styles", in a full selection of colors and color combinations, for lads of 3 to 10' years at $3.25 to $6.50. In Palm Beach and other fine, cool wash fabrics, all made in the Norfolk style, for boys of 8 to 15 at $U and $12. Every suit; in the cpllectlon the best 'ts klad at the prle. French Dhm Sale Is "Fifty Years of Europe" By Charles Downer Hazen One of the after-thc-war books of gieat value for serious stu dents. Prof. Hazen tells- the storv of Euiopc from 1870 to 1919 a story, the knowledge of which is essential to acrt a similar future with the utmost inteicst and claiity. Pi ice $2.50. Mnln Hivor, Thirteenth) npRAVEL Com- fort Requires a Dressing Case Unless you have a fitted tiav eling bag or suitcase you need a dressing case to be really com f oi table on trips away from home. We have a splendid assoitment for both men and women. Leath ers are seal, cowhide; auto leather and others', chiefly in black, but some blown. The men's cases have black fittings and the wom en's hao white fittings. Pi ices $4 to $40. (Mnln rioor, Chentnnt) STERNO Cooking Devices Always ready, always useful, but especially so in Summer. With the help of canned heat a Sterno outfit will enable you to prepare a square meal; warm the baby's milk; or heat water; also it is adapted for outdoor pui poses as well as indoor. There are, various Sterno de vices, priced from 65c to $3. Canned heat is 10c to 75c. (Fourth Floor, Central) FOR the "Marry Month of June" For the festivities which usu ally precede and follow the wed ding, hostesses will find many suggestions and novelties in the Candy Store Rose pies, with 12 favors, $6.50. Rose-trimmed baskets, 40c each. Rohe cases, with bells, 35c. Rose cases, 10c, 15c and 25c. Mint wafers with rose decora tions, 10c each. (Dunn Mulrn More, CheMnut) Three Klearf lax Linen Rugs for the Usual Price of Two Just because these rugs arc a few inches longer or shorter than the stock sizes. In many instances the odd sizes are a better fit for the places you need them than the regular sizes would be. Best way to do in a sale like this is to bring in the measurements of your rooms or halls and then see which of the many different size rugs here best suit your purpose. In many sizes quantities are limited, but in the following there is good assortment: 9x20 ft., $51. 8x9.6 ft., $21. 6x7.6 ft., $12.50. 9x11 ft., $28. f&RV2io 6xG ' ?10- 9x10 ft., $25.50. 9x9.6 ft., $23.75. Cool and Living Coolness and daintiness are the two chief requisites of a living room on hot days. To these add comfort and you have an ideal or something very near it All three are realized in t"he sets of living-room furniture to be found in our Summer display. Set, except where otherwise mentioned, means a settee and chairs. We are showing a num ber of particularly interesting 3-piece 6ets, in which there are many very pretty en"ects in cre tonne and taffeta upholsteries. These sets are made of an ex cellent class of imported Afri J 1 l Poor Sweltering Man! Don't you know that you have no need to puff and fume and fret and groan so about the hot wave? At least seventy-five per cent of your dis comfort is due to your clothes. No doubt there are days when you will feel hot and oppressed, no matter what you may wear or, indeed, what you may not wear; but taking one day with another, your discomfort is bound to be reduced pretty nearly to a minimum by wearing the right kind of suit, and the right kind of suit for days such as we have been having is surely a tropical suit. Our assortment of tropical suits is full. It includes suits made of all the desirable tropical fabrics, such as Palm Beach, mohair and breeze weave materials. The two things that men want are pretty?, well combined in these suits namely, coolness I and comeliness they keep a man as cool as he ' can be and as well dressed as he should be. Prices from $18 to $25. And don't forget that this is by far the coolest and airiest men's clothing store in Philadelphia to choose in. t hlnl 'rioor. Market) Beating the Town on Men's $5 Panama Hats ' If you have any doubt of it, look around elsewhere and then come in and see the fine Panama hats we are selling for $5. The material in these hats is excellent and the shapes are correct and becoming. Light and cool and serviceable. (Main Floor, Mnrket) Men's Cool Underwear ofHabutai Silk A fine grade of white habutai is used in these gar ments, and at the price this material is selling for now in Japan the price of the underwear is low. Athletic shirts and knee-length drawers, $5 a gar ment. Union suits, $9 each. Splendid warm weather wear. (Mnln 1 lour, Markrt) 8x8.8 ft., $19. 8x7 ft., $15.50. 6x8 ft., $13.25. (Setentlt Floor, Chestnut) 8x7 t iiYio. Dainty Furniture for the Room in Hot Weather can reed and are exceptionally well constructed. $123 for a 3-pieco set in brown, with upholstered seat and back. $101 for a 3-piece set in brown, with a cretonne uphol stery of the crushed-in pattern. $152 for a 3-piece set in a two-tone enamel in a taffeta cre tonne. $181 for a 3-piece set in black enamel with red trimmings. The upholstery is of cretonne in soft .shades of black, gteens and reds. $98 for a 3-pieco set in brown, with separate spring cushion seat. $154 for a 3-pleco set in (Seventh Floor, Cent!) I. 54 in. x 7 ft., $8.75. 54 in. x 6 ft., $7.50. -, ,- cream, with a taffeta cretonne covering. ? $406 far-ggygBirenamel setjg '? far in ivory iiBBFD'ue xnin. ii-. unholsterflKsents are blue fie- ured linen. The fourth piece is aii oval table. $166 for a 3-piece bet in V brown. One of the pieces h m?t nign-bacK wing chair with broad arm and pocket with an adjust able head rest. " a $161 for a 3-nlece set. In Jt shaded ivory with trel)is-pattBl 1 cretonne ana high backs, -t' f ' t $180 lor a a-pteco set In two-tono enamel in brickdttK and brpwn, with a figured lSiwfi effect cretonne1. f-' ' ti 33 w i -.! 0" fy .trt: , .(ii.'ttS JM 7 '1 JM Sftfl M r 'V8S ijm WM ,- ii " -."W 1-. i.' ' 1 !!" '( aO'.V'Joor. Central) V W i filj P ,) Vii i yv mL . 7 Hi j , :-. n.'J , .- "6. ? -i r 'Al". ' f J. &A iBCW. "" ' -ft -"' ' ' " itoma rp " "T t "ytvwaxT HW vL A k PA& ,
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